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Life of Adam and Eve 30

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

Anderson critical edition of the Latin Vita Adae et Evae (Lechner-Schmidt text, Custis/Anderson/Layton translation, U. Virginia IATH); includes medieval Latin appendices 52–57. These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1(30.1b) After Adam reached the age of 930 years, knowing that his days were ended, he said [to Eve]: "Gather about me all my children that I might bless them before I die, and that I might speak with them."

2(30.2) They were gathered before his sight, in front of the oratory where he worshipped the Lord God. [They numbered 15,000 men, not counting women and children.]

3(30.3) They asked him [and when they all had been gathered, they said with one voice]: "What is wrong with you, father, that you have gathered us together? Why are you lying on your bed?"

4(30.4) Answering, Adam said: "My children, I am in great pain." All his children said to him: "What does mean, father, to have great pain?"

Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.